• An Alternative to Incarceration
    An Alternative to Incarceration

    PHMC's Forensic Services programs reduce recidivism and enhance community safety. We support about 10,000 justice-involved youth, adults and families each year.

    Programs
  • An Alternative to Incarceration
    An Alternative to Incarceration

    PHMC's Forensic Services programs reduce recidivism and enhance community safety. We support about 10,000 justice-involved youth, adults and families each year.

    Programs

Driving Under the Influence Treatment Court

The Driving Under the Influence Treatment Court (DUI-TC) is a highly structured program that combines periods of incarceration, community-based treatment, probation and judicial supervision. 

PHMC coordinates services for the community-based treatment component of the DUI-TC program. This court-run program includes four phases and takes one year to complete. The program’s goal is to address the participants’ substance use disorder through treatment.

Services

  • Case management

  • Connections to substance use treatment

  • Coordination of state-required testing

  • Communication with the court with respect to participants’ treatment compliance

Once a participant successfully completes the program, court supervision ends. Participants are not eligible to have their records expunged.

Referrals & Eligibility

  • Participants must be referred by the District Attorney’s Office.

  • The DUI-TC target population includes second- and third-time offenders in need of drug and/or alcohol treatment.

  • DUI-TC is not available in cases where a person other than the individual was seriously injured or killed, or if there was a passenger under age 14 in the car at the time of the offense.

 

PHMC's Forensic Services programs support about 10,000 individuals each year.

We serve justice-involved youth, adults and families.

Manny* used his time in PHMC’s Forensic Services program to work on his housing, substance use, employment, and legal goals. Admitted to the Intermediate Punishment Program (IPP) as a non-violent offender and evaluated for chemical dependency, he benefited from the program’s behavioral health assessments, substance use treatment, vocational training, case management, and intensive probation supervision.

 

Manny achieved sobriety throughout the IPP program and has maintained it since, and recently completed both his treatment and the IPP program. He has started a new job at a plastic company, and is in a much stronger position with respect to his employment and housing stability.

 

*Name changed to protect identity.

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